Wednesday, June 30, 2010

If you are a regular reader of this feature do you ever wonder where all the ships that enroll come from? Or if we will ever have all the ships in the world signed up? We often think of these things. In reality the Amver system has a little over 21,000 ships enrolled in the system. On any day there are about 3,700 ships actively reporting. Those are pretty big numbers! What about the rest of the merchant fleet? Perhaps they haven't learned about us yet. Maybe you can tell them the benefits of Amver participation for us? In the meantime please help us welcome the latest members of our safety network.

ETERNUS

KAREN C

STX HARMONY

APL OREGON

KASHIMASAN

TRUE

PEARLOR

LUCY SNUG

CSAV LEBU

FEDERAL PEARL

PACIFIC MARCHIONESS

MSC HEIDI

ER BARCELONA

BIG BLUE

BELUGA NAVIGATION

PILOT

CFL PRUDENCE

GOLDEN CHIE

IMOLA EXPRESS

EVERHARD SCHULTE

VENUS LEADER

BELUGA HOUSTON

OOCL GUANGZHOU

NAVIOS STELLAR

ASIAN PARADE

EAGLE KANGAR

ALTAIR TRADER

FAIRCHEM BOGEY

TRENTA

ALPINE LOYALTY

DELTA TOLMI

SEA HORSE

BBC MARMARA

ANDREW CHARLES

NICOLAOS

DOUBLE HARMONY

CONTI EQUATOR

NORWEGIAN EPIC

Want to help us enroll more ships in the Amver system? You can by sharing the Amver story with your mates! Tell our story at the pub, in the ward room, on shore leave, or at a conference. Tell everyone how you help save lives at sea and how they can too!

1 comment:

July 1, 1958- The new Atlantic merchant vessel position reporting program [known by the acronym AMVER] was established. It was aimed at encouraging domestic and foreign merchant vessels to send voluntary position reports and navigational data to U.S. Coast Guard shore based radio stations and ocean station vessels. Relayed to a ships’ plot center in New York and processed by machine, these data provided updated position information for U.S. Coast Guard rescue coordination centers. The centers could then direct only those vessels which would be of effective aid to craft or persons in distress. This diversion of all merchant ships in a large area became unnecessary.

What has made AMVER so sucessful is the vessels that voluntary put themselves "On Plot" if it was not the vessel's particpation in the AMVER it would not be the sucess it is today in saving lives at sea

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